January 2020

Pakistani Army must stop using terror groups as instruments of foreign policy: Pakistani dissidents A group of dissident Pakistanis has expressed deep disappointment over continuous military intervention and abridgement of democratic freedoms in Pakistan and called on mainstream parties to stand up for civilian supremacy, constitutional governance, and rule of law in the country. The group also demanded that the Pakistan military must put an end to the continuing use of extremist militant groups as instruments of foreign and domestic policy and for that matter treating the western border of the country as the strategic backyard of Pakistan. Under the banner of...

Instagram Deletes Account of Woman Who Sold Nudes to Raise Rs 5 Crore for Australian Bushfires At a time when a major part of Australia is burning with the ravaging bushfires, a US-based model had managed to raise a sum of $700k (nearly 5 crore INR) in a period of two days through sending nudes. But such a way of raising the fund wasn’t well received by Instagram’s community guidelines, as her account was taken down today. 20-year-old Kaylen Wayne took to Twitter on January 4 to announce that she will send one nude picture of her to per person,...

John Bolton ready to testify in Trump impeachment trial “I have concluded that, if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify,” Mr Bolton said in a statement. He has previously complied with the White House directive not to co-operate with the Democratic-led inquiry. Mr Bolton would be the most senior former Trump adviser to testify. Mr Trump, a Republican, was impeached by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives last month. He was the third US president ever to incur such a congressional sanction. Source: BBC

Trains, planes and audacity: How Carlos Ghosn became the world’s most famous fugitive On Christmas Eve, Carlos Ghosn walked into his lawyers’ modest office in central Tokyo to speak to his wife, Carole, for only the second time since April. During his long odyssey through the Japanese legal system—several arrests, more than 100 days in solitary confinement, seemingly endless interrogations, and, after his release on bail, intrusive 24-hour surveillance—Ghosn had been forced to accept many humiliations. But few demoralized the ousted leader of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA as much as having to seek court permission even to call...

Soleimani killing: Iran’s Zarif vows response to US ‘act of war’ “Iran will respond because there was an act of war – an act of war combined with an act of terrorism against a senior official of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a citizen of Iran,” Zarif said. “We are bound to protect our citizens and our military officials. It was an act that has to be reciprocated by Iran. We will make the necessary deliberations and it will be an act that we will do, not in a hurry, not in a hasty manner.” Soleimani was killed along...

Tata Steel ‘can’t keep funding losses’ at UK’s loss-making Port Talbot plant: N Chandrasekaran LONDON : The chairman of the Tata group N Chandrasekaran has said the steel conglomerate cannot have a situation where India keeps funding the mounting losses at its struggling Port Talbot steelworks in the UK. He emphasised that the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales, one of the largest in Europe, needed to be “self-sustaining” in an interview with the Sunday Times. The head of the 84 billion-pound turnover conglomerate that also owns British luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover, refused to commit to continuing to make UK steel,...

Next 10 years are going to be very challenging for even stock pickers: Sridhar Sivaram, Enam Holdings We are looking at opportunities outside the 15-20 stocks that most people have invested in including us, for 2020, says Sridhar Sivaram, Investment Director, Enam Holdings. Excerpts from an interview with ETNOW. Is 2020 going to be well worth the ride or is it going to be just testing your patience kind of game for the markets like 2019 was?My view that we will see the broader market rally in 2020. It cannot be just the 15-20 stocks which would taking the market up. We...

Zoho CEO slammed for being guest at RSS event, he retorts that he works as per conscience An RSS invite for a function, which has on its guest list the Founder & CEO of Zoho Corporation Sridhar Vembu as well as the Chennai MD of Accenture Solutions Rama S. Ramachandran, has kicked up a storm. The event titled ‘Resurgent Bharath’ is scheduled to be held on February 2 in Chennai. While Sridhar Vembu is the chief guest, Ramachandran is the guest of honour at the event.  Several users on Twitter were quick to criticise the Accenture Chennai MD and the Zoho...

Anand Mahindra shares menu of vegetarian eatery which serves Veg Mutton Dosa. Internet dies laughing Anand Mahindra is known for his interesting posts on Twitter as he often shares stuff on his timeline that go viral almost instantly. His recent tweet proves just the same. Mahindra took to Twitter on January 5 to post a hilarious tweet and netizens can’t stop laughing. He shared a picture of a standee-menu of a restaurant that claimed to be a ‘pure vegetarian’ eatery but the dishes listed on it…wait…why don’t you figure it out yourself? Mahindra posted the picture with the caption, “An...

Former Fox reporter claims Trump invited her to his office to ‘kiss’ A former Fox News reporter has claimed that President Donald Trump had once, before he became president, propositioned her in a phone call and had invited her to his Trump Tower office so they could “kiss”. Courtney Friel, the reporter who occasionally filled in as an anchor on Trump’s favorite TV show Fox & Friends, also recalls in her upcoming book, Tonight At 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News, that Trump had told her she was the “hottest one at Fox”. Source: Hindustan Times